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Died. The Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowski, 76, for 27 years the "Black Pope" (Superior General of the Society of Jesus) ; in his cell at Jesuit headquarters in Rome. One of the four longest-ruling world leaders of the Jesuits in the order's 400-year history, he was its greatest modern rebuilder, raised the number of provinces from 27 to 50, increased the 17,000 members...
From the U.S. last week came one hopeful sign that religious leaders are eager to follow the British trend. The Jesuit weekly America, which often sets the pace for Roman Catholic action, devoted its lead editorial to cooperation with non-Catholics on post-war planning, praised British Catholics for working with "informed and convinced Christians [i.e., Protestants]." It also declared that U.S. Catholics "can afford to lose no time in getting busily to work" in similar fashion-once "norms and principles" for it have been "laid down by those whose office it is to authorize the participation of Catholics...
With these vigorous words the president of America's biggest Roman Catholic university last week admitted publicly that he had been wrong-something that President Roosevelt himself has never done except about Thanksgiving. The author of this graceful admission is that urbanely dogmatic Jesuit, the very square-jawed Very Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon S.J., who made it to his own students at the formal opening of Fordham's joist academic year...
...publishing Fordham's annual accounts (unwritten Catholic law is to avoid public financial statements whenever possible), and for the fact that he is apparently scheduled to head his university for an indefinite period. Few presidents of Catholic colleges serve more than a set term, which in the 68 Jesuit-run schools (including Fordham) is six years. Father Gannon's term would normally have been up last June, but his superiors got round its regulation by appointing another Jesuit as rector of Fordham, continuing Father Gannon as president...
...sealed into the new high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan last Saturday. In the reliquary were bone fragments of each of the twelve Apostles, of St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Rose of Lima (the first American saint) and three Jesuit saints martyred by the Iroquois in 1649. They came straight from Rome, where a special department of the Vatican authenticates relics of the saints and sends them with proper attestation wherever new altars are needed...